📝 Half Yearly Examination – 2025-26
Class: 6
Subject: English (Second Language)
Time: 2 Hours
M.M.: 60
**SECTION – A
(Multiple Choice Questions – Q1 to Q5)**
(Each carries 1 mark)
Q1. What are the things that the child sees when he reaches up in the air?
(A) rivers
(B) trees
(C) cattles over the countryside
(D) all the above
Answer: (D) all the above
Q2. How were the people in the king’s kingdom?
(A) unhappy
(B) sad
(C) depressed
(D) happy
Answer: (D) happy
Q3. Gandhi ji’s story inspires us to be
(A) truthful
(B) shy
(C) playful
(D) naughty
Answer: (A) truthful
Q4. Why did the students gather on the playground?
(A) for a picnic
(B) for Annual Sports Day
(C) for a dance event
(D) for a school photo
Answer: (B) for Annual Sports Day
Q5. Find the correctly spelled word.
(A) caram
(B) carem
(C) carom
(D) carum
Answer: (C) carom
**SECTION – B
(Fill in the blanks – Q6 to Q10)**
(Each carries 1 mark)
Q6. A little seed was _______ deep in the soil.
Answer: sleeping
Q7. The teacher of Pandav and Kaurav princes was _______.
Answer: Dronacharya
Q8. Swinging is the _______ thing for a child.
Answer: pleasantest
Q9. The life of Mahatma Gandhi leaves a lasting _______.
Answer: impression
Q10. The plural of mouse is _______.
Answer: mice
**SECTION – C
(Very Short Answer – Q11 to Q16)**
(Each carries 2 marks)
Q11. Where do all the village children play?
Answer: They play under the banyan tree or in the open field.
Q12. What test was given to the princes?
Answer: They were given the test of archery to shoot the eye of a wooden bird.
Q13. Make sentences with the following words:
(1) kind
(2) sweet
Answer:
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Kind – She is a kind girl.
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Sweet – Mangoes are very sweet.
Q14. What is the long nose of an elephant called?
Answer: It is called a trunk.
Q15. Write the comparative and superlative degrees:
deep
tall
Answer:
• deep – deeper – deepest
• tall – taller – tallest
Q16. What kind of ruler was the king who fought many battles?
Answer: He was a brave and courageous ruler.
**SECTION – D
(Short Answer – Q17 to Q22)**
(Each carries 3 marks)
Q17. Name the great person in the lesson ‘My Childhood’. What were his only companions?
Answer: The great person is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
His only companions were his books.
Q18. What lights the traveller and how?
Answer: The moon lights the traveller by shining brightly in the night sky.
Q19. Who take rest at night in the tree?
Answer: Birds and small animals take rest at night in the tree.
Q20. Why didn’t Guru Dron allow other princes to shoot the target?
Answer: Because they could not focus only on the bird’s eye.
Q21. Read the passage and answer:
(a) Who was Hariram?
(b) Why did he plough his field?
(c) What made him a happy farmer?
Answer:
(a) Hariram was a farmer.
(b) He ploughed his field to grow corn.
(c) His hard work made him a happy farmer.
Q22. Find the adjectives:
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Ravi has got a new shirt.
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She purchased a pretty doll.
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I like orange juice.
Answer:
new, pretty, orange
**SECTION – E
(Long Answer – Q23 to Q26)**
(Each carries 5 marks)
Q23. Complete the lines of the poem ‘The Swing’.
How do you like to go
Up in a swing
Up in the air so blue?
Oh! I do think it’s the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Q24. What moral do you get from ‘The King and the Spider’?
Answer:
The moral is: Try, try again till you succeed.
It teaches us never to give up and always keep trying.
Q25. Write a letter to your father to send you money to buy books.
Your Address
Date
Dear Father,
I hope you are well. My studies are going on smoothly. I need some books and notebooks for the new term.
Kindly send me Rs. 1500 so that I can buy them soon.
Give my regards to Mother and love to everyone at home.
Your loving son,
Q26. Write a paragraph on ‘Trees Our Friends’.
Trees are our best friends because they give us oxygen, shade, fruits and medicines. They bring rain and keep the air clean. Trees also provide shelter to birds and animals. They prevent soil erosion and protect the environment. We must plant more trees and save them to keep our earth green and healthy.
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